Senegal

In Senegal, digital commerce is growing. Regardless of low financial institution entry (solely 21%), e-commerce websites are multiplying, primarily within the capital Dakar. And this because of an growing penetration price on the web, which reached 74% in 2019. Physique lotions and hair masks. For 3 years, Rosa Manuela Evora,…

In Senegal, a Dakar Trend Week minimalist was held on December 12 and 13 because of the "worrying" improvement of Covid-19 within the nation, which bolstered the restrictive measures. Throughout a single large parade below the baobabs, in Nguékhokh, 80 km south of the capital, the illicit African vogue occasion welcomed about twenty designers. Most of them have offered "sluggish vogue" collections that…

In the context of an upturn in the Covid-19 cases, the authorities have once again closed performance halls and banned all concerts, dances and songs in bars and restaurants. Negotiations with the authorities in recent days have not been successful. A sit-in scheduled for Thursday, December 17 in Dakar has been canceled. The artists say they are "suffocated".…

Deputies finally had the last word on Thursday morning, due to a lack of agreement with the senators on a common text. As the text says, France now has one year to deliver the 26 works from the Béhanzin tax to Benin. The sword known as El Hadj Omar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire, has already been returned in November 2019 to the Senegalese authorities.…

In Senegal, it is the end of the popular university for civic engagement, a major meeting with the "Afrikki" platform, which brings together militant civic movements from the continent and the diasporas. Their activists met virtually face-to-face at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar to discuss "civic action in the face of the autocratic press" in Africa.…

Should the city of Dakar be suppressed - administratively - as a society? The Minister of Territorial Collectives threw a stone at the dam. According to Oumar Guèye, Dakar, like four other cities in the country - Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Thiès "has no reason to exist". In the perspective of the next local elections, an important step before the 2024 presidential election, the issue raises, very…

Too many traffic jams, too expensive rents, inaccessible coastline ... These are some of the residents of Dakar. How can the quality of life of the people of Dakar be improved? This is the theme of a virtual exhibition, "Living in Dakar", which is aimed at residents and also those involved in urban planning. A project led by two architects, with Goethe Institut.…

Senegal faces "a second wave" of Covid-19. The Minister of Well being returned on Thursday 10 November to the rise in new circumstances. One month in the past, the nation registered lower than ten new pollution per day. Yesterday, the quantity rose to 101. Within the face of this case, the well being authorities demand "nationwide self-discipline" for compliance with barrier measures. As for the…

The home of sculptor and plastic artist Ousmane Sow has reopened in Dakar. However throughout the containment, the administration developed a digital go to that our everlasting particular correspondent in Senegal might check. .

In Senegal, the verdict was announced on Tuesday morning in the case of the three fathers of a family accused of starting their children on canoes on their way to Spain. One of the youths, Doudou, a minor, died in the sea at the end of October. His father had hopes that he would become a professional football player in Europe.…